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  2. List of plants poisonous to equines - Wikipedia

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    Hungry or thirsty horses are more likely to eat poisonous plants, as are those pastured on overgrazed lands. [5] Animals with mineral deficiencies due to poor diets will sometimes seek out poisonous plants. [6] Poisonous plants are more of a danger to livestock after wildfires, as they often regrow more quickly. [7]

  3. Equine nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Grass is a natural source of nutrition for a horse. Equine nutrition is the feeding of horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, and other equines. Correct and balanced nutrition is a critical component of proper horse care. Horses are non-ruminant herbivores of a type known as a "hindgut fermenter." Horses have only one stomach, as do humans.

  4. A guide to some of NC’s most dangerous plants, from poison ...

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    Poison ivy vs. poison oak vs. sumac: How to tell the difference Poison ivy and poison oak are the most common around the Triangle , Briggs said, while sumac is in much wetter areas, such as the ...

  5. Talk:List of plants poisonous to equines - Wikipedia

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    If buttercups, red clover or dandelions were toxic to horse, there would be very few if any pastures in the UK that horses could graze! Listing by genus when only a few species are involved is quite wrong. There's also confusion between the plant itself being toxic and it being toxic when infected with a fungus or other non-plant organism.

  6. Bleeding canker of horse chestnut - Wikipedia

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    They are desirable because they can tolerate many conditions including dry sandy soils, wet clays and chalk. [4] The tree is economically important because it contains aescin which can be used for its anti-inflammatory properties. Wildlife also benefit from the nuts the tree provides. [14] Bleeding canker and bark cracking on the trunk of Horse ...

  7. Hill figure - Wikipedia

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    Larger horses are more susceptible to this. If chalk is washed off the horse, the horse gradually creeps down the slope; or if soil is washed onto the horse, it collects onto the lower edges and the horse gradually climbs up the slope. A solution is to provide drainage, either using run-off drains, as at Uffington White Horse, or a french ditch.

  8. Ant chalk - Wikipedia

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    Ant chalk, also known as Chinese chalk or Miraculous Insecticide Chalk, is an insecticide in the form of normal looking chalk. It contains the pesticides deltamethrin and cypermethrin. [1] While the active ingredients are legal in the United States, [2] the chalk is not legal there. Labeling often falsely claims the chalk is "harmless to human ...

  9. Locoweed - Wikipedia

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    Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock.Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, [1] and Swainsona in Australia.